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| Jaffa The Bride Of Palestine, Yafa يافا - יפו Ethnically cleansed days ago |
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| Elevation from the sea | 32 meters | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maps | A detailed map of Jaffa city (almost 1 MB in size) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coastal shore length | 5.5 (km) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Jaffa's name though history |
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| Nearby rivers and wadies | al-'Awja River terminates 9 km north of Jaffa, and Rubin River (also known by Wadi al-Sarar) terminates 13 km south of Jaffa. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| City area size | In 1945, Jaffa city covered an area of 9,737 dunums, which didn't include the roads, wadies, and railroads, ... etc. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| District's size | Jaffa's district covered an area of 334.8 square kilometers, which included 18.6 square kilometers for roads, wadies, railroads, ... etc. In 1945, Zionists owned 129.5 square kilometers from the total district size, which constituted 38.6% of the district's total size. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Villages and settlements | The district of Jaffa included 23 villages within its municipality, two German colonies (Sarounah and Weil Helma), and the following Jewish colonies:- Tel Aviv, Pitach Teqva (Mlabiss), Choloun, Tel Luftinski, and Beit Yam. Click here for a detail map for the villages and the nearby colonies in the district of Jaffa. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Population |
Click here for complete population break down. |
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| Port |
Jaffa and Haifa ports were considered to be the major ports in Palestine, and
both were publicly owned and operated by the Government of Palestine. Before WW II, Jaffa's port was underdeveloped, and because of its treacherous sea ships often had to continue sailing north to Haifa. Usually, ships had to anchor few miles from the shore, and then unload their passengers and goods to small boats to transport them to the shoreline. As Haifa' port, Jaffa's port was developed just before WW II to receive steamers and passenger ships. |
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| Year | Total | Arab Muslims | Arab Christians | European Jews | Others | No. Of Houses |
| 1886 | 17,000* | 16,900 | N/A*** | 100 | N/A | N/A |
| 1906 | 47,000* | 42,500 | N/A*** | 5,500 | N/A | N/A |
| 1910 | 70,000* | 62,000 | N/A*** | 8,000 | N/A | N/A |
| 1922 | 47,709 | 20,699 | 6,850 | 20,152 | 8 | N/A |
| 1931 | 51,866 | 35,506 | 9,132 | 7,209** | 19 | 11,304 |
| 1945 | 66,310 | 50,880 | 15,400 | N/A | 30 | N/A |
| 1947 | 70,760 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 1950 | N/A | 4,000 | N/A*** | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 1958 | 56,500 | 6,500 | N/A*** | 50,00 | N/A | N/A |
| 1965 | 100,000 | 10,000 | N/A*** | N/A | 30 | N/A |
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* These statistics also includes the villages and Jewish settlements in Jaffa
district (Tel Aviv, Betach Tikvah, ..etc.) ** Excluding Tel Aviv. *** Arab Christians statistics are included with Arab Muslims statistics. |
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| Mayor | Jaffa's last mayor was Dr. Yosef Haykal. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| City's income and expenses |
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| Agriculture | Jaffa was well known for its cash crops as citrus and Bananas. In 1945, Arabs planted 146,316 dunums with Citrus, while 66,403 dunums were planted by Jews. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Industries |
Jaffa was the most advanced city in Palestine in the
development of its commercial, banking, fishing, and agriculture industries. Jaffa had
many factories specializing in cigarette
making, cement making, tile and roof tile production, iron
casting, cotton processing plants, traditional
handmade carpets,
leather products, wood box
industry for Jaffa orange, textile, presses
and publications. It should also be
noted that the majority of all publications and newspapers in Palestine
were published in Jaffa.
Since Israeli still maintains and enforces the "Law Of Absentees", all Jaffa's industries, farms, buses, cars, railroads, cattle, real states, ... etc. have been looted and became the property of the "Jewish state". When similar injustices were perpetrated against Europe's Jewish citizens (by the Germans and the Swiss during WWII), the Jews of the world demanded justice for their looted art works and properties. The question which begs to be asked is :- Are the Palestinian people entitled for compensation for their looted properties? |
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| Fishing industry |
** Palestine total fishing for this year was 1,699 tons, which was worth 59,651 British Pounds. *** This was the only yearly statistic which did not include Tel Aviv's totals. |
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| Neighborhoods |
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| Churches and Monasteries |
Jaffa had ten churches and three Monasteries.
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School |
Boys Schools |
Girls Schools |
Mixed Schools |
Total |
| Government | 4 | 5 | - | 9 |
| City | 2 | 1 | - | 3 |
| Private and National | 8 | 3 | 13 | 24 |
| Foreign | 3 | 2 | 6 | 11 |
| Total | 17 | 11 | 19 | 47 |
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Students Enrollment |
Government | City | Others | Total |
| Boys | 1,704 | 935 | 4,272 | 6,911 |
| Girls | 1,533 | 372 | 2,724 | 4,629 |
| Total | 3,237 | 1,307 | 6,996 | 11,540 |
| Percentage | 28.1% | 11.3% | 60% | 100% |
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| Occupation date | 13th of May 1948 |
| Attacking Israeli force | More than 5,000 well trained and well equipped Haganah and IZL forces. |
| City defenders |
Jaffa defenders were made up from of a combination forces as follows:-
Altogether, the defending force was 1,500 volunteers strong, which was very poorly trained, under armed, and they had few months only to build Jaffa's crumbling defenses. Despite the odds, many of these heroes withstood a three months onslaught and siege. It should be noted that Jaffa was never allocated to the Jewish state by the UN GA partition plane, and it had also no Arab Armies. Click here, to read more about the battle for for Jaffa in Arabic. |
| Refugees' migration route |
The mass majority of Jaffa's inhabitants, numbering at least 50,000, were pushed
into the sea. Similarly, Haifa's population, numbering at least
35,000, suffered the same fate on the May 23rd, 1948. . Click
here to view a map that illustrates refugees' migration routes.
Via boats, many of the refugees landed in Gaza, 'Areash (Egypt), and some made it all the way to Beirut (Lebanon). Also some people fled inland to al-Ramla, al-Lydd, and the well off refugees fled to Jerusalem and Amman. Ironically, often Zionists accuse the Arabs of plotting to push the Jews into the sea! |
| Ethnical cleansing |
The mass majority of Jaffa's population were ethnically cleansed. Out
of the 70,000 Palestinians who used to call Jaffa home, only 3,650 were
allowed to stay. The remaining Palestinian population were boxed in al-'Ajami
neighborhood, where their movements were severely restricted until 1966.
Click here, for a detail eye witness account depicting the cleaning of Jaffa. |
| Casualties on both sides | According to Manachem Bagen, IZL has taken at least 1,000 casualties (either killed or injured), and unknown number for Haganah's casualties. On the Palestinian side, they suffered over 1,300 killed including 20 Yugoslavian Muslim Mujahideens. |
Soon after occupation, the Zionists blew up and bulldozed most
of Jaffa's (75%) Arab section, and only the al-'Ajami, Old City, and small
part of al-Mansheyyah survived demolition. Mostly (if not all) Jaffa's Suqs were
obliterated including Suq al-Nahaseen, Suq al-Balabseh, Suq al-Maslakh, ..etc. In 1954, Jaffa
became the suburb of Tel Aviv, and since then both cities are known by Tel
Aviv-Yafo.
Currently, Jaffa's Old City neighborhood is being renovated, and mostly it is
being inhabited by artists.
Jaffa's main port has been closed
and all its shipping has been diverted either to Tel Aviv or Isdud ports. Jaffa's
main Clock Square now called Kikea Hagana (The Haganah's Square) and Jaffa's main street Bistress-Iskandar 'Awad
is
now known by Rehev
Mifrats Shelomo. Jamal Basha street name has been changed to Jerusalem
street, and big portion of al-Manshiyyah neighborhood became a public park. It also should be note that currently Jaffa's Arab population
numbers around 10,000 people.
Click here for up to date information about the situation of Palestinian Arabs in Jaffa.
Bibliography
Our primary sources for the above data was Biladuna Filisteen (second set, volume four) by Mustafa Murad al-Dabagh and The Palestine Encyclopedia.
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